Mine’s The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Thick books never stopped me from reading nonstop before, but there are entries in the book that just has me stopping and taking time to mull things over.
Also, sharing this excerpt: “Not to be sentimental, as I sound, but why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?”
I definitely, absolutely, have not had Vanity Fair on my list for about 8 years… It’s the page count; for some reason I’ve read longer books but Vanity Fair didn’t have me hooked straight away and then there were other books to read. I move it from one yearly list to the next and have restarted it twice. I should probably call it a day, really, but I do want to read it.
In more manageable times, I’ve had Neil Ansell’s The Circling Sky since July. I WILL get back to it.
It can be a little bit of a slog, but Vanity Fair IS worth it!